Danger is now a part of Microsoft's new Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX) team, a group within the Mobile Communications Business (MCB) of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft.
I spent enough time with;
-OpenDoc
-Desktop Printing
-Chooser
-Extension Manager
-Cleaning out corrupted preferences
-Playing with RAM allocation for Adobe apps for clients
-PPP dial-up accounts with hacks
No thanks. I don't think my fingers have ever healed from putting memory into the PPC 7100s or 8100s and getting continually sliced-up. Ugh! Bad memories indeed.
///The iPhone is really about the only reason to consider them as a network.///
Correct.
I was on Verizon for years and prior to them I was on Sprint in the San Francisco Bay Area. I moved to the iPhone and AT&T because of the iPhone and very happy I did because the iPhone is amazing. It is better than any Palm, Blackberry or other phone I have had but the AT&T service BLOWS!
There are a lot of bad areas in San Francisco for AT&T that Verizon's coverage was solid in. The other CONSTANT frustration is when I call other iPhone/AT&T users and get dropped ALL THE TIME!
1. Buy a Black Sharpie(TM) pen (the thin sharpie would be best in my past experience).
2. Locate the reference to the drive size on the manufacturers label located on the top of the drive enclosure (typically in GB).
3. Gently (as to not damage the disk platter below the label and enclosure) using the Sharpie(TM) cross out that number and replace with the desired capacity above or below the factory stamped capacity. NOTE: depending on how the drive manufacturer has detailed the size on the label, you might have space above the factory size reference or below the reference.
Like the Tron guy (you know the guy who made his own budget tron suit).
http://www.tronguy.net/images/headshot.jpg
I think I would be cool with Terry if he wasn't such a putz or a-hole and he had a tron suit on or something nutty when they brought him to jail. Overall, he gives people the sysadmin stereotype they all want - hostile, paranoid and a jerk, so it got a lot of play in the media. It is frustrating because many of us fight this stereotype constantly and make huge gains only to have a Terry Childs attitude reinforce the negative stereotype of a sysadmin who does not have a sense of who and what he is working for. Yet, even with all of that, I think if he could get in a Tron suit of some sort, I would give him another shot and it could twist the stereotype into a crazy geek rather than an asshole geek.
It will start out fine and about 30 minutes in the security officers will probably just go in and disable security alerts like all Windows users do after a while.
Showing my age, but anyone else remember the movie short SNL did in the early eighties with Eddie Murphy and the prisoner poet guy? Basically it was just a prisoner Tyrome Green who wrote poetry about his crimes and he REALLY hated his landlord.
One of the poems was about going in a trashing his landlord's place and the phrases
Kill My Landlord, Kill My Landlord
C...I....L....L...... MY LANDLORD
Needless to say, kill my search engine, kill my search engine
C....U....I....L...... MY SEARCH ENGINE
Ah, not the same.
Here is the full text of the poem. Wonder if it is somewhere on YouTube or something.
"Images by Tyrone Greene"
Dark and lonely on a summer's night. Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord. Watchdog barking. Do he bite? Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord. Slip in his window. Break his neck. Then his house I start to wreck. Got no reason. What the heck? Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord. C-I-L-L my land lord!
Only IT Departments who exist in a vacuum are dead
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Is the IT Department Dead?
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Carr is no dummy. He just wants to get attention and sell books and if PHBs want to spend the money on it, then they deserve what he is dishing. Somewhere he and John Dvorak are groping each other while they count their page hits and read their flame emails back and forth in some sadomasochistic orgy of some sort.
Anyway, if I can gleam anything out of the 'IT Department is Dead' type talk, it more relates to IT departments that are disconnected from the overall business strategy of the company. IT as some magic place where webservers and email and database servers live and the people that run them are aloof, hostile and arrogant is done and should be done. The concept that companies need to have a silo of people that just run IT and don't understand how they relate to the various business goals and initiatives is outdated. But, that could and should be said for any part of a company. If I have Finance people who exist in a vacuum and don't give a damn about others in the company trying to get their work done, then they should be 'dead' too.
Technology has allowed various business components to be moved outside the four walls of the tradition business but that has been the case in many other professions as well as IT. For example, look at independent bookkeepers, tax accountants, legal services, production, manufacturing and sales through VAR channels and distributors. But, when a component is key to what you do and how you execute as an organization, you would be crazy to have to outsource the decisions to people not looking out for your best interests. This is why companies have accounting departments, legal departments, etc.
I am sure his book will do well and PHBs will pontificate and assimilate with the 'IT is dead' rehashed mindset like they did with Carr and others dished it out the first time. Well-managed IT resources in any sort of company that are right-sized for the company and have direct reports to the key executive more than pay for themselves from what I have experienced. The whole 'IT is dead' crap is primarily just a way for PHBs to try and rationalize their own personal bad experiences with IT (i.e. the Dell they bought online and they can't get on their DSL or riddled with spyware) or the various failures of projects they have run or been a part of that had an IT element to them but went horribly wrong because of scope-creep and mis-management. Blaming technology and those that tell you it is not wise to proceed down a path is easier than blaming management.
Agreed on this. Heck even Palm OS can do this now. My Treo 700p does just fine with Activesync and Kerio. Once you have your calendar, contacts and email syncing to your phone, you really don't want to abandon that fuctionality. If the iPhone had that, and I could get a command line and ssh, I would be set.
MS tweaks their adoption numbers because it is not possible to buy XP licenses anymore. Instead, you buy Vista licenses and can use XP. So, I am sure for the MS marketing department and for their reporting it might look like Vista is doing great. They did this for XP to 2000 as well but not as aggressively as they did this time around.
Vista is not something we need at the business-level.
I didn't buy into all the hype but my boss came in today with it and after setting it up on our WPA wireless network, getting his mail running to our servers via IMAPS, etc. it is a VERY nice device.
The EDGE network blows. But, browsing off of it from our wireless network is a breeze. The screen is solid and I was amazed at the clarity of the screen with fonts, images when zooming really close. After setting it up on the network, it does need a few things.
1. ActiveSync or something to sync to our mailserver so the user can get contacts, calendar and mail. 2. IPSec VPN ability - maybe Cisco will get a client in this? 3. Open Office documents (Excel, Word) 4. Open PDF docs.
I am sure this will get better as it goes. But, far far better than I would have expected as a first gen device. It does make my Treo 700p look poor.
"I have little to no reason to even *consider* software that is going to give me extra integration headaches, and I can't believe that I'm alone in my thinking."
This coming from someone who is running an all Windows shop. MS products are unable to integrate with themselves. Why START thinking now?
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Let me decide what is "acceptable" for me.
Reminds me of the IBM server commercial. 'Servers are our friends' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73bMSNPc3Ak
We're reshaping the mobile Internet landscape
Danger is now a part of Microsoft's new Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX) team, a group within the Mobile Communications Business (MCB) of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft.
I spent enough time with; -OpenDoc -Desktop Printing -Chooser -Extension Manager -Cleaning out corrupted preferences -Playing with RAM allocation for Adobe apps for clients -PPP dial-up accounts with hacks No thanks. I don't think my fingers have ever healed from putting memory into the PPC 7100s or 8100s and getting continually sliced-up. Ugh! Bad memories indeed.
Correct.
I was on Verizon for years and prior to them I was on Sprint in the San Francisco Bay Area. I moved to the iPhone and AT&T because of the iPhone and very happy I did because the iPhone is amazing. It is better than any Palm, Blackberry or other phone I have had but the AT&T service BLOWS!
There are a lot of bad areas in San Francisco for AT&T that Verizon's coverage was solid in. The other CONSTANT frustration is when I call other iPhone/AT&T users and get dropped ALL THE TIME!
Horrible = AT&T
1. Buy a Black Sharpie(TM) pen (the thin sharpie would be best in my past experience). 2. Locate the reference to the drive size on the manufacturers label located on the top of the drive enclosure (typically in GB). 3. Gently (as to not damage the disk platter below the label and enclosure) using the Sharpie(TM) cross out that number and replace with the desired capacity above or below the factory stamped capacity. NOTE: depending on how the drive manufacturer has detailed the size on the label, you might have space above the factory size reference or below the reference.
Wow - stated quite well. Mod up on this please.
Like the Tron guy (you know the guy who made his own budget tron suit). http://www.tronguy.net/images/headshot.jpg I think I would be cool with Terry if he wasn't such a putz or a-hole and he had a tron suit on or something nutty when they brought him to jail. Overall, he gives people the sysadmin stereotype they all want - hostile, paranoid and a jerk, so it got a lot of play in the media. It is frustrating because many of us fight this stereotype constantly and make huge gains only to have a Terry Childs attitude reinforce the negative stereotype of a sysadmin who does not have a sense of who and what he is working for. Yet, even with all of that, I think if he could get in a Tron suit of some sort, I would give him another shot and it could twist the stereotype into a crazy geek rather than an asshole geek.
I think they have been waiting for an early release model of the Window Mobile phone to start prototyping after the Zune. http://hideapod.com/
I don't think the 4 year old will be all that happy doing demos of sending pics to her family 8 hours a day.
"Don't notify me and don't display the icon (not recommended)"
"Assume all potential attacks will come across the network or internet and disregard direct physical access to the hardware"
"I'm a PC and I just got walked to the HR office"
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=129216
Showing my age, but anyone else remember the movie short SNL did in the early eighties with Eddie Murphy and the prisoner poet guy? Basically it was just a prisoner Tyrome Green who wrote poetry about his crimes and he REALLY hated his landlord.
One of the poems was about going in a trashing his landlord's place and the phrases
Kill My Landlord, Kill My Landlord
C...I....L....L...... MY LANDLORD
Needless to say, kill my search engine, kill my search engine
C....U....I....L...... MY SEARCH ENGINE
Ah, not the same.
Here is the full text of the poem. Wonder if it is somewhere on YouTube or something.
"Images by Tyrone Greene"
Dark and lonely on a summer's night.
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking. Do he bite?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Slip in his window. Break his neck.
Then his house I start to wreck.
Got no reason. What the heck?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L my land lord!
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Carr is no dummy. He just wants to get attention and sell books and if PHBs want to spend the money on it, then they deserve what he is dishing. Somewhere he and John Dvorak are groping each other while they count their page hits and read their flame emails back and forth in some sadomasochistic orgy of some sort.
Anyway, if I can gleam anything out of the 'IT Department is Dead' type talk, it more relates to IT departments that are disconnected from the overall business strategy of the company. IT as some magic place where webservers and email and database servers live and the people that run them are aloof, hostile and arrogant is done and should be done. The concept that companies need to have a silo of people that just run IT and don't understand how they relate to the various business goals and initiatives is outdated. But, that could and should be said for any part of a company. If I have Finance people who exist in a vacuum and don't give a damn about others in the company trying to get their work done, then they should be 'dead' too.
Technology has allowed various business components to be moved outside the four walls of the tradition business but that has been the case in many other professions as well as IT. For example, look at independent bookkeepers, tax accountants, legal services, production, manufacturing and sales through VAR channels and distributors. But, when a component is key to what you do and how you execute as an organization, you would be crazy to have to outsource the decisions to people not looking out for your best interests. This is why companies have accounting departments, legal departments, etc.
I am sure his book will do well and PHBs will pontificate and assimilate with the 'IT is dead' rehashed mindset like they did with Carr and others dished it out the first time. Well-managed IT resources in any sort of company that are right-sized for the company and have direct reports to the key executive more than pay for themselves from what I have experienced. The whole 'IT is dead' crap is primarily just a way for PHBs to try and rationalize their own personal bad experiences with IT (i.e. the Dell they bought online and they can't get on their DSL or riddled with spyware) or the various failures of projects they have run or been a part of that had an IT element to them but went horribly wrong because of scope-creep and mis-management. Blaming technology and those that tell you it is not wise to proceed down a path is easier than blaming management.
Agreed on this. Heck even Palm OS can do this now. My Treo 700p does just fine with Activesync and Kerio. Once you have your calendar, contacts and email syncing to your phone, you really don't want to abandon that fuctionality. If the iPhone had that, and I could get a command line and ssh, I would be set.
MS tweaks their adoption numbers because it is not possible to buy XP licenses anymore. Instead, you buy Vista licenses and can use XP. So, I am sure for the MS marketing department and for their reporting it might look like Vista is doing great. They did this for XP to 2000 as well but not as aggressively as they did this time around.
Vista is not something we need at the business-level.
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*.2.* indicates GPLv3
*.0.* indicates GPLv2
So, to easily remember this kids 2 equals 3 and 0 equals 2.
All set now?
Thanks.
I was unable to get it to handle Word and Excel attachments but will try again.
"God are you a loser."
Ah, great that the kids are out on summer vacation isn't it? Now go back to myspace or youtube and try to cope with your stressful life.
I didn't buy into all the hype but my boss came in today with it and after setting it up on our WPA wireless network, getting his mail running to our servers via IMAPS, etc. it is a VERY nice device.
The EDGE network blows. But, browsing off of it from our wireless network is a breeze. The screen is solid and I was amazed at the clarity of the screen with fonts, images when zooming really close. After setting it up on the network, it does need a few things.
1. ActiveSync or something to sync to our mailserver so the user can get contacts, calendar and mail.
2. IPSec VPN ability - maybe Cisco will get a client in this?
3. Open Office documents (Excel, Word)
4. Open PDF docs.
I am sure this will get better as it goes. But, far far better than I would have expected as a first gen device. It does make my Treo 700p look poor.
"I have little to no reason to even *consider* software that is going to give me extra integration headaches, and I can't believe that I'm alone in my thinking."
This coming from someone who is running an all Windows shop. MS products are unable to integrate with themselves. Why START thinking now?
Just a picture, but very funny nonetheless.
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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/adwatch/linux-joins-th